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DAOS and TOD similarities - Coggle Diagram
DAOS and TOD similarities
Chaos
DOAS
The main sense of chaos comes from Willy's delusion and senality.
He blurs the boundaries between the past and present, reality and fiction, and right and wrong.
Familial and domestic conflict, e.g illy and Biff
The conflict of dreams and goals, arguments and hostility and Willy's suicide
TOD
Variation between Tess's life as a pure woman and the chaos and disorder through Sorrow and Laec is the catalyst to her undoing.
She is continually hounded by her past and hanged for her wrongdoing.
Alec's death
Tess's death
Dangers of modernity
TOD
Some critics have argued that the reason why the tragedy happens is because of modernism and industrialisation, e.h. the thresher
Age-old traditions of the countryside were disappearing- HArdy highlights the wider tragedy of this.
Hardy focuses on the transitions from the pre-industrial period to modernity- which brings about the tragedy.
DOAS
Willy's job is rapidly becoming out-of-date
Suggests that modernity brings about a personal tragedy
Could be that modernism makes Willy realise that he is not as good of as a salesman as he thought he was, after the economic crash.
Suggests modernism damages traditional order, values and beliefs, e.g. consumerism and capitalism
Presence of Fate
DOAS
Capitalism and The American Dream engulf Willy to the point where he cannot see where he truly belongs.
Willy's tragedy is that the American Dream predetermines many men's decisions.
Willy was victims of a society- acknowledges that misfortunes are not necessarily caused by an individual's'' character but are caused by malevolent forces operating on all of us.
TOD
Alec and Prince determine her fate.
The class structure of social attitudes f Tess's world; her poverty, need to work and survive and her sense of shame, drive to her tragic end.
The patriarchal society
Fated to die
Catharsis
TOD
It is not a happy end
Another cyclical structure
The Victorian readership would be satisfied that Tess died for her sine but confused because she did not deserve this fate.
DOAS
The audiences realisation that The American dream is unattainable and unrealistic.
Some people still believe that they can achieve this, but it can only work for some, e.g Howard.
Anagnorisis
DOAS
Willy never has a major anagnorisis
Biff enforces it upon him but Willy just realised that Biff loves him, and cares about his mental decline. It was not too late for Biff, but it was for Willy.
TOD
At Stonehenge- she realises that she must die for her sins.
It could be argued that she never does anything wrong, so never has a moment of realisation.
Acceptance of her fate at the end shoes her realisation of the situation- "I am ready".
Hamartia
DOAS
Pride in DOAS functions as a means of self-deception and as a coping mechanism.
Willy is extremely proud and his self-worth is centred around his career.
Despite his apparent self-confidence, he is at the same time riddled with insecurities and need to dream.
TOD
Having an innocent, pure and persistent nature.
Tess never settled for an undesirable life; she is doomed at the start to suffer and die
Pride-no to let her family down.
Setting
DOAS
Blending of the past and the present- the present is bleak to WIlly. The past is happy- joyous music.
"towering, angular shapes surround the house on all side".- houses seem to be small and significant and vulnerable to major industrialisation. It is symbolic of Willy and hints at his fragility (and his domestic life).
The towering shapes surround the house and suggest entrapment. The world beyond looms, just like the American Dream and capitalism overwhelms and consumes Willy.
The scope of the play is limited, which conform to classical tragedy of Aristotle's unities.
TOD
May conform to The Unities, as the scope of the play is limited to Wessex.
The setting tends to mirror Tess's emotions. She has strength and vitality at Talbothays; at Flintcomb as she is tried and cold- linking her with the natural world.